The Indiana pizzeria that was forced to close following backlash over the owners’ comments on gay marriage and the Indiana religious freedom law will reopen sometime soon.
In an interview that aired this week, the owner’s daughter, Chrystal O’Connor, said that Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Ind., would not cater a gay wedding due to the family’s religious beliefs. Following outcry over O’Connor’s comments, critics of the Indiana law flooded the pizzeria’s Yelp page with negative reviews and inundated the restaurant with phone calls, pushing the owners to shut down the restaurant.
Despite the negative response to the O’Connor family’s comments, Chrystal O’Connor told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on Thursday that the restaurant will reopen eventually. O’Connor said she wasn’t sure when the pizzeria will open its doors again.
“I’m still shaken over this,” she said, explaining that she would have to answer the phones and serve customers. “I’m not ready to face that yet.”
In her original comments, O’Connor said that gay people were welcome in the pizzeria, but that Memories Pizza could not serve a gay wedding. Cavuto asked her why she drew that line.
“It is not a sin that we bring gays into our establishment and just serve them. It is a sin, though, if we cater their wedding. We feel we are participating. We’re putting a stamp of approval on their wedding. And we cannot do that,” O’Connor responded. “It’s not at all hateful. We show no hatred toward them.”
In response to the backlash against O’Connor’s comments, Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze TV network launched a crowdfunding campaign for Memories Pizza, which has raised nearly $140,000. O’Connor told Cavuto that she was grateful for the support.
Watch the interview below via Fox News:
Cavuto is nice! He answers all the questions for her!
$140,000 will buy a hell of a lot of chintzy Chinese-made religious bric-a-brac to festoon the interior of this soon-to-be Christo-fascist shrine. Look for the dedication of the memorial plaque and the setting of the time capsule in the coming weeks, with NOM and AFA top brass in attendance among other prominent figures in the hate industry.
It seems difficult for this poor little blossom to grasp the fact that haters get hated, that it’s not just a one-way street. When you bite, you tend to get bitten in return.
In all my years in the hospitality industry , it would have been inappropriate for me to consider myself a participant in any way in the meetings and weddings I worked.Repeat that: “I worked.”
That is the language of the industry. We would ask the florist, chef, cake baker, bartender, dishwasher etc. if they were “working” an event. Never have I heard, “Are you celebrating/participating in the Jones/Berry wedding?” If asked the professional answer should be, “No.” I did not receive an invitation, I did not sit down to dinner and I certainly was not asked to dance. The only thing I celebrated was the paycheck and the tip. And if I “worked” a political party event did that make me a member of the party or endorse their policies? No.
They changed the language of the whole industry to fit their discriminatory agenda. Florists and Bakers, YOU and I are merely THE HIRED HELP we are not participants or celebrants.
It’s now up to 485,000 dollars…grifters gotta grift. They learned well from Queen Bee Grifter Sarah Palin, play the CON grifter it pays well!